2019
Statistics Colloquium: Jeff Leek
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
JEFF LEEK, The Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab & Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Data Science Education as a Scalable Economic and Public Health Intervention”
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Statistics Colloquium: Pragya Sur
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
PRAGYA SUR, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“A Modern Maximum-Likelihood Approach for High-Dimensional Logistic Regression”
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Statistics Colloquium: Jonathan Weed
4:00–5:00 pm
JONATHAN WEED, The Statistics and Data Science Center & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Fast Rates and Fast Algorithms for the Wasserstein Distance”
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Statistics Colloquium: Subhabrata Sen
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
SUBHABRATA SEN, Microsoft Research Lab – New England & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Network Data: Modeling and Statistical Analysis”
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Statistics Colloquium: James Johndrow
1:00–2:00 pm Kent 120
JAMES JOHNDROW, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Bayes Shrinkage at GWAS Scale”
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Statistics Colloquium: Jingshu Wang
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
JINGSHU WANG, Statistics Department, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
“Data Denoising for Single-cell RNA Sequencing”
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Statistics Colloquium: Eugene Katsevich
4:00–5:00 pm
EUGENE KATSEVICH, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Multiple Testing for Modern Data: Structure, Curation, and Replicability”
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Statistics Colloquium: Gal Mishne
4:00–5:00 pm Eckhart 133
GAL MISHNE, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
“Local Geometric Spectral Data Analysis”
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Statistics Colloquium: Yuehaw Khoo
4:00–5:00 pm Eckhart 133
YUEHAW KHOO, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
“Multi-marginal Optimal Transport, Density Functional Theory, and Convex Relaxation”
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Statistics Colloquium: Alexander Young
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
Joint Seminar with the Department of Human Genetics
ALEXANDER YOUNG, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, U.K.
“Disentangling Nature and Nurture Using Genomic Family Data”
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